Ethan Porter

• Company Overview: Aldi Distribution Center Springfield
• Safely operating a two-pallet, drivable, two-forked lift throughout the warehouse; slowing down at intersections, honking my horn to announce my presence, and maintaining a readiness to immediately brake or make quick movements to avoid accidents
• Fulfilling grocery orders for stores assigned to my headset by the shipping office staff
• Using voice commands to operate my headset and auditorily record all product that I have placed on my pallet-build, ensuring an accurate count of what the store will be getting
• Taking product in cases from assigned slots in the separate rooms of the Perishable side of the warehouse, placing them in strategic locations on my two pallets to build towers of product with strong structural integrity
• Driving my tugger, with product in tow, skillfully and safely through tight spaces, around turns, and through doorways in such a way that the tower contents of my pallets do not topple from excessive speed, bumps, stops, or turns
• Demonstrating good spatial awareness as I drive my tugger through aisles and racks of product, ensuring that I safely and considerately navigate, accommodate for and move around other co-workers who are walking on foot, driving their own tuggers, or driving forklifts
• Moving heavy cases of product by hand to my tugger, then lifting it up and placing it in progressively higher locations on my pallet build
• Simultaneously moving quickly and at a brisk pace while grabbing product and walking with it, building it, and driving to the next product slot, all while making real time voice record inputs and edits into my headset, so as to maintain a high-quality, hourly rate of cases selected, of which I am accountable to my direct supervisor to maintain
• Operating the plastic wrap machines on the main floor to automatically wrap my pallet builds tightly with plastic packing wrap, ensuring safe operation, trouble-shooting technical issues or delays, and quickly moving through the process so as to accommodate my co-workers who are waiting to use the machine next
• Hand-wrapping pallet builds quickly and tightly when all wrap machines are in use and ensuring a quality wrap
• Placing wrapped pallet builds that make up a complete store order in the assigned shipping lane, where they will be transported by the load team to their store truck and sent out to the appropriate store
• Assisting co-workers in rebuilding and picking up a pallet spill when it occurs, demonstrating workplace camaraderie and ensuring team-building and minimal productivity delays
• Aldi Distribution Center Springfield

• Working during the evening and early morning hours in a third-shift scheduling environment, with constantly shifting start times and end-times; being on call at any given moment in time to begin work, so as to accommodate my employer's unpredictable work/life patterns.
• Operating in a small cleaning team to accomplish cleaning a larger space/building, often doubling up with co-workers to accomplish a singular task, such as moving furniture, or by performing sequential task distribution.
• Talking with teammates in order to create a cleaning plan that would optimize time, quality of work, talent, and client satisfaction.
• Moving furniture off floors to fit into compact spaces on area rugs off of the work site flooring.
• Pre-scraping floors in preparation for the floor to be scrubbed.
• Post-scraping after the scrub is complete to move any additional loosened debris to the middle of the room for the vacuuming associate to collect.
• If the vacuuming associate is not present, operating the vacuum sucker machine to remove all excess water and scraped-up debris from the floor scrub.
• Guiding the carpet machine and fill it with water and cleaning chemicals as the operator performs carpet cleaning process.
• Operating the Armada auto-scrubber to complete LVT wooden floor scrubbing process.
• Operating the dry-stripper machine to manually perform a high-oscillation chemical stripping reaction on appropriate flooring, while maintaining a safe and strategic path of movement to cover all flooring in the treatment.
• Maintaining high-level attention to detail constantly so as to ensure safe and appropriate application of chemicals and treatments.
• Working in coordination with teammates to correctly load and secure all cleaning machines, tools, materials and accessories in my employers trailer with fastening straps for transport.

>Maintaining an organized Produce Cooler and keeping product stored efficiently and cleanly

>Placing produce items in their correct locations in the store and filling holes where product was running low

>Answering phone calls and customer questions about produce; providing excellent, friendly customer service

>Effectively communicating with co-workers to split the workload and accomplish tasks properly and quickly

>Culling through produce to maintain freshness quality and remove any bad or spoiled produce from the sales floor to donate to food banks

>Facing product as a closing procedure by pulling products to the front of their shelf slot and straightening the fit of the product into each respective shelf location

>Cutting, washing, and bundling fresh iceberg and romaine lettuce to put on the sales floor

>Squeezing fresh orange juice upon the freight truck's arrival with oranges

>Slicing, labeling, and packaging watermelon and jackfruit for customer purchase

>Bagging green beans, Brussels sprouts, and ripe bananas

>Using pallet jacks to move produce that requires constant refrigeration into the produce cooler at closing time

>Covering the root vegetables and onions at closing time with blankets and parchment paper to prevent premature budding

>Couponing packaged salad, juice, and sunterra and organizing shelved products by expiration dates; oldest to the front and new at the back

• Managing my assigned individual campers' behavior and the behavior of the assigned group as a whole, ensuring safe interactions and adherence to respect of each other, and preventing physical or verbal altercations
• Going door-to-door in the communities that make up the Fox Valley area to inform tenants/residents face-to-face about open-house events, the camp, the experience, and all relevant information they would need to be comfortable and excited about sending their child(ren) to camp
• Adhering to an ever-changing weekly schedule by getting my campers on-time to where they needed to be and managing my time to complete all my assigned tasks
• Forming relationships with my campers and maintaining an energetic, cheerful attitude to ensure they have a fun experience
• Working with fellow camp counselors to maintain 24/7 supervision of my campers, paying close attention to the location of each child at all times so as to ensure their safety
• Engaging with both my and everyone's campers alike in activities ranging from physical running and jumping activities to arts and crafts
• Making my campers aware of the camp rules and expectations for them and enforcing those items as needed
• Coordinating and communicating with staff to problem-solve, accomplish tasks, and maintain supervision and care of all campers
• Working with fellow camp counselors as a team to clean and reset all cabins, lodges, and activity facilities at the end of each week to prepare for the next week's campers
• Maintaining a clean living space in the common room and bedroom of my assigned cabin
• Doing campers' laundry and returning all articles of clothing to the correct camper once a week
• Working in a team role to pick up, check in, drop off, and check out campers, and coordinate luggage retrieval

• Using specified phone technology to locate and pick merchandise in-store for pick-up or curbside online orders and/or online deliveries
• Practicing and applying excellent communication skills to work as a team and accomplish responsibilities
• Traversing the store quickly and efficiently to retrieve items; individually, or with team members to fulfill large-quantity orders
• Stopping fulfillment activity in order to answer customer questions and/or assist in their search of a product; practicing good customer service
• Organizing and staging products in their correct location in the bay area to hold for customer retrieval
• Clearing out and updating bay inventory to keep accurate records and prevent overflow and lack of space for staging
• Usage of computer technology to adjust customer orders and/or cancel them for refund purposes or accurate order fulfillment
• Consistent lifting, stacking, and movement of heavy items
• Using powered equipment such as forklifts and other devices to fulfill orders
• Consistent learning of various skills outside of my position to fill in for other work-absentees as a cashier, customer service representative, or loader

• Constantly re-studying/familiarizing myself with ever-updating beverage and food recipes and menus
• Making hot, iced, or frozen coffee and non-coffee based beverages such as macchiatos, lattes, cortados, hot chocolates, smoothies and teas
• Making/preparation of breakfast food items such as breakfast sandwiches, waffles, donuts, bagels, English muffins, muffins, cookies, quiche, and other baked goods
• Consistently stocking food inventory and/or circulating product from storage area to preparation area, updating/making an accurate record of said inventory
• Cashier operation and selling of beverages and food
• Practicing excellent customer service through engaging in conversation, addressing complaints, and fulfilling orders with urgency, finesse, and a good attitude
• Cleaning/maintaining of a presentable workspace, sitting space for customers, coffee grinding/brewing equipment, dishes, and facilities
• Closing down shop by myself which included locking up all doors, product, and/or facilities, performing finance duties such as updating records, placing money in a secure space, and notifying manager of any incongruities and/or significant problems
• Coordinating with team members to fulfill customer orders in a small work space

> Operating the cash register and performing basic math to sell products to customers and ensure they receive the correct change

>Completing an inventory checklist to keep accurate records of in-stock products and products that needed restocked

> Taking the trash out if working a closing shift.

> Sweeping the floor, wiping the counters and cooking appliances

>Operating slushy machine, operating air-fryer, and operating microwave

>Preparing simple sandwiches and cooked foods including chicken nuggets, grilled cheese, Italian subs, hot dogs, cheeseburgers, soft pretzels, and nachos.

>Exercising good customer service to address customers' needs and complaints

>Memorizing the menu so as to quickly recall prices and perform accurate point of sale duties.